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When I have made all these points, which I undertake to prove, abundantly plain to
your most intimate friends, then I will also turn my attention to that which is
granted me by you. I will say that I am content with that. For what—what,
I say—did you yourself lately say, when in an agitated state you escaped
from the outcry and violence of the Roman people? Why, that he had only cried out
that he was a Roman citizen because he was seeking some respite, but that he was a
spy. My witnesses are unimpeachable. For what else does Caius Numitorius say? what
else do Marcus and Publius Cottius say, most noble men of the district of Tauromenium? what else does Marcus Lucceius
say, who had a great business as a money-changer at Rhegium? what else do all the others ray? For as yet witnesses have
only been produced by me of this class, not men who say that they were acquainted
with Gavius, but men who say that they saw him at the time that he was being dragged
to the cross, while crying out that he was a Roman citizen. And you, O Verres, say
the same thing. You confess that he did cry out that he was a Roman citizen; but
that the name of citizenship did not avail with you even as much as to cause the
least hesitation in your mind, or even any brief respite from a most cruel and
ignominious punishment.

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